Sentences with phrase «begins with a tale»

Douglas Adams's The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy begins with a tale of two bypasses.

The series begins with the tale of how the state of Illinois and its partners, including universities, districts and teachers» unions, accomplished this change.

They begin with the tale of Roman Markin, a «correction artist» who works for the Department of Party Propaganda and Agitation.

This book can't begin with the tale of the telekinetic monkey.

Instead, it will feature «possible storylines that take place on the island», beginning with the tale of a jilted bride looking for a new love.

Beginning with the tale of a natural tragedy that occurred in the French Alps, the piece continues as the cameras fly concurrently over the sharp valley, scrutinizing rocks, roads, tunnels, and ruins.

Not exact matches

This year, though, Brin kicked off the Founders Letter with a quote taken from the very beginning of «A Tale of Two Cities,» a book written over 150 years ago by Charles Dickens — a historical fiction about the French Revolution.

As with so many business success stories, the tale of Napoleon Grills begins in an immigrant's garage.

It's striking how many of marketing's cautionary tales begin with someone wanting to improve something.

It's a roundabout tale that begins with her burning out on a private equity job in 2006 and ends with her here at Patagonia's headquarters in Ventura, Calif., north of L.A., leading the iconic outdoor clothing and equipment maker through the most profitable and expansive era in its history.

The tale begins with the fact that one of the most celebrated authors in U.S. history, Mark Twain, has long been suspected of having ghostwritten The Personal Memoirs of Ulysses S. Grant.

Mitchell's tale is worth pausing over in order to head off from the very beginning one of the great hazards of talking about Tocqueville: so generalizing his ideas that they collapse into commonplaces no one could possibly disagree with.

Chapters titled «Night» begin, end, and return in the tale, with chilling echoes of Wiesel, Nietzsche and Job.

When fairy tales begin with the familiar phrase «Once upon a time,» they signal a mythical point of departure: the beginning of a great adventure.

It is a painful tale, burdened with an inexorable logic of defeat at the hands of a racist society — we «know» from the beginning that terrible things are in store — but illuminated by another logic, that of grace, by no means so certain, for it operates in secret with persons (Kumalo and the elder Jarvis) whose formation by it is in terms of the gradual and ambiguous growth of actual human development.

The tale begins with a description of the piety of Tobit while he resided in the land of Israel.

Like the tales of the 1 in 3 Campaign, the story begins with the discovery of pregnancy.

Let's begin with a story, a folk tale from Central Asia.

The tale begins with the fact of the tree's love for the boy.

(Matthew 28:11 - 15) Certainly no opponent of the Church would try to explain the missing body with a tale like this unless they felt they had to admit that the tomb was empty to begin with.

Christianity cherishes story, not in the sense of a fictitious tale, but rather in a view of life which is whole, with a beginning (creation), a middle (the incarnation and crucifixion), and an ending (the resurrection).

Our gospel is the unlikely tale that begins with an emperor's folly, for in setting out to register «all the world,» Augustus and his governor Quirinius put something into motion that transcends all earthly power.

«Talking snakes», 500 yr old men and one of them called «Noah» with an ark who somehow magically saved all the animals (LOL), «Adam and Eve» in the «Garden of Eden» even though all the proof shows that the human species began in S. East Africa., a planet and universe that was supposedly created in 6 days 6 thousand years ago... thanks, but I have all the proof I need to NOT believe in your twisted book of fairy tales.

If they lived to tell a tale then they weren't really dead to begin with, right?

And with that, what began as silly tale about a boy who traded his family's only cow for magic beans took a foreign turn into something more dangerous than our usual fare.

That's the way the human tale of desire begins — with blood and a hunger for taking from others what they have for no other reason than that they have it.

So begins a grand tale in which two people with the commendable desire to marry are thwarted by craven clerics, absurd legal judgments, and the malice of the powerful.

Beginning with the Third Annual Imperial Battle of the Sexes on Wednesday, July 15th, followed by an unexpected Dynamic Duo happy hour on Thursday, July 16th, Tales attendees are sure to feel the presence of the notorious French emperor.

I just don't know what's wrong with Arsenal fans.Sure I get it as humans we all have our preferences but things start to look funny when we begin to bash and criticize a player like he's useless.I just don't get why Arsenal fans do nt want Vardy.Oh is it because he's not world class, he's English, He's not a big name, he's a fairy tale, you feel all he does is run, he's not got a better history in footballing until now or you feel Giroud is better or what?I really pity Arsenal fans honestly.I would've taken Jamie Vardy in a heartbeat.Sure he's not the best option out there.But I'll say this and say it again it's not a world class striker that wins you a league but rather just increases your chances of winning the league.If you've watched Arsenal clearly from the time since Henry left you realized that it's more of not being able to find a clinical striker.Eduardo was not a already a finished product when he started his career here yet he was clinical and was on world class form until injury.What Arsenal need now is a world class finisher if they can't get a world class striker.

I plan to begin work on a children's book / graphic novel inspired by folk tales, while continuing to promote my work on Brighton the Graphic novel with some university presentations early in spring onwards.

Crushed by the migrants» tales of abuse and neglect, Margaret begins a lifelong battle — with little regard for her own wellbeing — to find the truth.

The tale begins with Bondfield, Susan Lawrence and Dorothy Jewson who were the first Labour women to win election to the House of Commons, in 1923.

The tale begins with our early ancestors — where they traveled and with whom they consorted.

The tale begins with Leó Szilárd, a charming and slightly eccentric Hungarian physicist who was an old friend of Einstein's.

It's a tale you hear over and over with yogis who have practiced for many years - the story of starting with the physical practice (asana) along with the breath (pranayama), then beginning to feel like something was missing or there was more to learn, so naturally moving towards education and observation of other limbs of the yogic tradition like meditation, and the yamas and niyamas.

(That's especially problematic when the bigger, grander tale that's supposed to be the backdrop — the French students» revolution — wasn't that compelling on stage to begin with.)

Then, as the movie began, I realized that a child with a cell phone represents what DreamWorks Animation, the producer of this most lucrative of franchise animated features, envisions its audience to be — tiny, pre-corporate techies who live far from the fairy - tale emotion of enchantment.

What began two films ago as a deliciously snarky reinventing of fairy tales, done with appropriate, and long overdue, swipes at the purveyors of schmaltz has become the very thing it once made sport of.

The movie begins in a kind of mouse orphanage, whose overseer tries to scare her charges with tales not of big bad wolves but big bad bears.

The adventures of «Megamind» begin where most superhero tales end, with the brainiac baddie (Ferrell) trapping his do - gooder nemesis Metro Man (Pitt) while holding girl reporter Roxanne (Fey) hostage.

Each tale begins with Dr. Stenson, the primary physician at the Sanitarium, commenting on the recent arrival of a new patient.

Recognizing her voice from outside the club, a group of men go in to watch her perform; as they sit at their table, their de facto leader Phil (Paul Reiser) begins relating the tale of Vicki's rocky romance with his friend Charley Pearl (Alec Baldwin).

«True Story,» much like the true story it recreates, begins better than it ends, with tantalizing details that suggest a more satisfying tale than is actually in store.

This is a traditional tale that goes interpreted unevenly and formulaically, but it remains an interesting story about the humble beginnings of the underground rock movement through the guidance of bum - turned - visionary Hilly Krystal, with a certain color that the script emulates more sharply than the often cold direction by Miller.

During her four - year tenure on the show, she also maintained her ties with the theater through her involvement with TADA, the Children's Theater Company.Following a move to Southern California, Helgenberger began guest starring on such television series as Matlock, thirtysomething, and HBO's Tales From the Crypt.

John Huston's Moby Dick starts out introducing a main character, as the novel does, with the famous line «Call me Ishmael», and then doesn't touch on him any further and begins a tale about a whaling ship.

This shape - shifting tale of the perils and pleasures of self - reinvention begins at a dinner party, when Tom's (Michael Shannon) co-worker arrives with an intriguing date named Alice (Rachel Weisz).

Tracking parallel and criss - crossing stories from either side of the tracks in a Rust Belt mining town, «Little Accidents» begins with a cave - in that kills ten local men, leaving only Amos (Boyd Holbrook, who does impressive work here too) alive to tell the tale (or not) to the investigation committee.

Into the Woods is a modern twist on the beloved Brothers Grimm fairy tales in a musical format that follows the classic tales of Cinderella, Little Red Riding Hood, Jack and the Beanstalk, and Rapunzel - all tied together by an original story involving a baker and his wife, their wish to begin a family and their interaction with the witch who has put a curse on them.

The humourous and heartfelt musical follows the classic tales of Cinderella (Anna Kendrick), Little Red Riding Hood (Lilla Crawford), Jack and the Beanstalk (Daniel Huttlestone), and Rapunzel (MacKenzie Mauzy)-- all tied together by an original story involving a baker and his wife (James Corden & Emily Blunt), their wish to begin a family and their interaction with the witch (Meryl Streep) who has put a curse on them.